Hartshorne in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hartshorne, entered under the hundred of Walecros in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Walecros

• Appleby [Magna]
• Bolun
• Bretby
• Caldwell
• Catton
• Coton [-in-the-Elms]
• Drakelowe
• Foremark
• Hearthcote
• Ingleby
• Lullington
• Melbourne
• Milton
• Newton [Solney]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hartshorne is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hartshorne.

Listed Buildings Near Hartshorne

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Hartshorne. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Nos 6 and 10 (The Manor House) - 0.7 km

Grade II

• Mill House - 0.15 km
• Spring Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.38 km
• Brook House Farmhouse - 0.44 km
• Manor Farmhouse - 0.5 km
• 1, Church Street - 0.63 km
• Church of St Peter - 0.64 km
• The Bull’s Head - 0.76 km
• 4-6, Manchester Lane - 0.78 km

Hartshorne Today

Today Hartshorne lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,847 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Hartshorne on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Swadlincote - 2.8 km SW
• Smisby - 2.8 km SE
• Ticknall - 3.6 km NE
• Bretby - 3.6 km NW
• Hearthcote - 4.5 km SW
• Milton - 5.0 km N